‘We Will Not Forgive,’ Biden Says, Vowing Retaliation for Airport Attack

The president spoke out after the attack that killed scores at the Kabul airport, among them at least 12 U.S. service members. He vowed to continue the evacuation of Americans.

President Biden condemns terrorist 

attack and vows to hunt down those responsible.

...the U.S. military sustained one of its highest single-day American tolls during its 20-year Afghanistan campaign...it was a day with more deaths than any other since 2011.

"We will hunt you down and make you pay.”

Mr. Biden said he had asked his commanders to find ways to target ISIS-K, the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attacks earlier in the day on behalf of its loyalists in Afghanistan.

“We will respond with force of precision at our time, place, we choose in a moment of our choosing,” he said.

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Those deaths were just the kind of military loss Mr. Biden has repeatedly said he was trying to avoid by ending America’s 20-year war in the country.

The president has said that he did not want to call the parents of another Marine, soldier or airman killed in action in Afghanistan.

Acting against the advice of his generals and overruling some of his top foreign policy advisers, Mr. Biden made the decision in April...

But the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban caught the administration off-guard...

Last Friday, as he pledged to evacuate all Americans and Afghan allies who wanted to leave the country, Mr. Biden vowed that “any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with a swift and forceful response.”